DeepMind founder to deliver RTS and IET public lecture on AI

Dr Demis Hassabis, founder of DeepMind, will deliver the Royal Television Society (RTS) and Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Joint Public Lecture at the British Museum on Wednesday 4 November. The lecture will be chaired by Tim Davie, CEO of BBC Worldwide and director, global.DeepMind is a General Artificial Intelligence (AI) company which was acquired by Google in 2014 in its largest ever European acquisition. In his lecture, titled, ‘Artificial intelligence and the future’, Demis will draw on his eclectic experiences as an AI researcher, neuroscientist and video games designer to discuss what is happening at the cutting edge of AI research, its future impact, and how developing AI may help us better understand the human mind, including the nature of imagination and creativity. Speaking about the event, Hassabis…